Background

Mr. William Randolph Hearst, III, also known as, Will, is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He was previously an Affiliated Partner at the firm. Mr. Hearst joined the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in January 1995. Mr. Hearst serves as Advisor of WURL, Inc. and Jaman.com, Inc. Mr. Hearst serves as the President at William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and Vice President, director and Trustee of The Hearst Foundation. Mr. Hearst served as the Chief ... Executive Officer at Excite@Home from May 1995 to August 1996. From October 1984 to December 1995, he served as a Publisher and an Editor at San Francisco Examiner newspaper. He was Editor and Publisher of The SF Newspaper Company LLC. He has been the Chairman of The Hearst Corporation since January 2013. He serves as Chairman of the Board of FORA.tv, Inc. He served as Vice Chairman of FORA.tv, Inc. Mr. Hearst has been a Director of ReplayTV Inc. since March 1999. He serves on the Boards of Hearst Corporation and Hearst Television Inc. (Hearst-Argyle Television Inc.) since the consummation of the Hearst Transaction on August 29, 1997. He has been a Director of ORA.tv, Inc. since December 2007. Mr. Hearst serves as a Director of Juniper Networks. He serves as a Member of Board of Advisors at Impact Online, Inc. He serves on the Boards of Geocast Network Systems, BigVine, SpringStreet, Inc., Oblix, Inc., The Hearst Corp., OnFiber, Applied Minds, LLC, Pictos, and TurnHere Inc. Mr. Hearst serves as a Director and Trustee of the Hearst Foundation. He served as the Chairman of Akimbo Systems Inc. since July 2004. Mr. Hearst served as a Vice Chairman of RGB Networks. Mr. Hearst served as a Vice Chairman of Onfiber Communications Inc. He served as a Vice Chairman of At Home Corporation (Excite@Home0 since July 1996. Mr. Hearst served as a Director of Excite@Home since August 1995. He served as a Director of ReplayTV, Inc. since March 1999, Zaffire, Inc., inDplay, Inc., since February 2006, Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc., At Home Corporation and Viewpoint Digitals Inc. (Viewpoint DataLabs). He served as a Director of Lumero, Inc. He was a Director at RMG Networks, Inc. He served as a Director of Zing Networks since August 1999. He serves as a Trustee of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Grace Cathedral of San Francisco, and California Academy of Sciences. Mr. Hearst is a Trustee of the Trust established under the Will of William Randolph Hearst. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received an A.B. degree in Mathematics in 1972 from the Harvard University.

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